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When Li Chou came to the altar with Gong Tianxue on his back, he saw Zhao Chang running over and hurriedly pulled Li Chou's sleeve and asked, "Where's my elder brother? Didn't you find him? What happened inside just now? I heard a loud movement, like... a big rock falling?"

Li Chou's heart sank, he didn't know how to tell Zhao Chang.

Even if he told the truth, would Zhao Chang believe that his brother Zhao Xu was that kind of despicable person?

"Your elder brother is dead." Gong Tianxue blurted out.

"What??" Zhao Chang turned pale in shock, looking at Gong Tianxue with a pale face, and then at Li Chou in a panic, "Brother Li, is it true? Gong Tianxue is lying, right?"

Li Chou lowered his eyes and acquiesced.

"My elder brother...my elder brother...impossible, he is such a good person, how could he die?" Zhao Chang said, rushing past the two of them, and ran towards the dark tomb passage.

Li Chou winked at Zhang Hufa, Zhang Hufa nodded, and chased in the direction Zhao Chang left.

"Zhao Chang is just a fool, it's useless for you to explain to him." Gong Tianxue was very calm, "It's better not to explain, he can think whatever he likes."

Li Chou originally thought that it would be extremely difficult to explain this matter to Zhao Chang, and to prevent Zhao Chang from going to a fight to the death with Gong Tianxue in a fit of anger.

Who would have thought that Gong Tianxue's move of cutting the mess with a sharp knife was surprisingly suitable.

"There's no need for us to stay here now," Li Chou said. "Since the emperor is gone, we don't need to make superficial efforts anymore. Let's go out."

"Back to Chang'an?"

"Go back to Chang'an."

Li Chou knew that Zhao Chang would not give up looking for Zhao Xu easily, so he left Protector Zhang to accompany him to have fun.

Here Li Chou, Gong Tianxue, Wang Hufa and others returned to Tugu City, bid farewell to the Donglai monarch and envoys, and returned to Chang'an.

The expected turmoil did not come, and Chang'an City was peaceful.

Looking at the streets in the city where everything was going as usual, Li Chou felt suspicious. Could it be that the news has not come back yet?

The three of them returned to Zhuoshui Bridge, Gong Tianxue ordered the congregation to pack their luggage and prepare to go back to Xizhou.

Li Chou called Mo Gu over and asked her if there had been any changes in the city recently. Logically speaking, the emperor had been absent for more than a month, so it should be different, but Mo Gu shook her head blankly, Said not to find any difference.

Li Chou fell into deep thought, Gong Tianxue said: "You want to know what changes have taken place in the court? That's easy, just ask Chi Yu."

Chi Yu is in Youhualou and is well-informed. He must know much more about this than Mo Gu.

However, Chi Yu gave them the same answer as Mo Gu.

"No change," Chi Yu asked curiously, "What's the matter, Hierarch Gongda, do you think that if you leave, everyone won't go to court?"

"Does the emperor also go to court every day?" Gong Tianxue was a little surprised.

"Isn't this nonsense, the emperor doesn't go to court every day, does he miss you every day?" Chi Yu laughed, with an expression of "Gong Tianxue, you are so narcissistic".

Gong Tianxue took half a step back, and exchanged glances with Li Chou.

There is a problem, there is definitely a problem, they can be sure that the emperor Yi Rongcheng's white jade died in the tomb, so who is the emperor in the court hall?

Gong Tianxue has always been very active. Since he had doubts in his heart, he decided to go into the palace to have a look that night to see who that guy sleeping in the emperor's bedroom was.

Li Chou was worried that he would go, so the two sneaked into the palace together. Gong Tianxue was familiar with the road, and came to the window of the emperor's bedroom together.

Until now, Gong Tianxue can be sure that the one in this palace is definitely a counterfeit.

He had a plan in mind, so he pretended to rush in, but Li Chou hurried to hold him back.

"Ah Chou, don't worry, no matter how much this impostor looks like the emperor, he is definitely a fake. Although the real emperor has a lot of bad intentions, he is a person who does not love beauty and loves health." Gong Tianxue said.

"Then what are you doing in there?" Li Chou asked.

"Since he is a Xibei product, I will naturally reveal his little secret. Besides, Ah Chou, you don't want to know why there is an identical Xibei product here?"

Li Chou was skeptical: "Are you sure you won't make a scene? In that case, we won't have time to escape at night."

"Don't worry." Gong Tianxue pressed Li Chou's shoulder, with a smirk on her face, "Just wait for my good news."

Li Chou probably guessed what Gong Tianxue was going to do, this method was a bit risky, but it was worth a try, so he acquiesced.

But the "fake" emperor is actually a relative of the emperor, and has some blood relationship with the emperor. The strange thing is that he looks very similar to the emperor. The emperor has been raising him and using drugs to change his appearance, making him more and more like himself. The more they resemble each other, even the closest ministers can't tell each other apart.

The emperor is a man with a very deep palace. He foresees that he may leave the court due to some things in the future, but the country cannot live without a king, and he can't trust others, so he puts this "stand-in" on the throne. He can easily Controlling the "stand-in" to obey his orders, and creating the illusion that he is still in the palace, is false and real, so that those with ulterior motives can't figure out the details, and the emperor has taken over the overall control.

Who knows, this "substitute" imitated him everywhere, but the only thing that can't be changed is lust. The emperor really couldn't help it, so he promised the substitute that whenever he went out, the "substitute" could be called Some low-grade beauties come to play.

That night, after a hard day's work, the "substitute" planned to relax in the evening, so he called three beauties over in one breath, and when he was hugging him from left to right, he suddenly saw a fairy-like beauty standing in front of the bed. Look straight.

"Beauty, come together!" The "stand-in" issued a warm invitation.

The beauty smiled coldly and said: "You can see clearly, I am the imperial bodyguard, the envoy who accompanied the emperor to Donglai Kingdom, and now I am returning to return."

"Follow... the emperor?" The smile of the "stand-in" froze on his face.

"That's right, the emperor is now a guest at the monarch of the Donglai Kingdom, let me come back and have a look," Gong Tianxue's face darkened, and she said to him, "You are here while the emperor is away. After giving birth to a big son, is it yours or the emperor's? How do you ask him to explain to the world?"

"Won't give birth to a child, I told them to take medicine afterwards, and they will never give birth to a child!" The "stand-in" immediately told the truth to Tulu.

"Hmph, if you say you can't give birth, you won't give birth? Some concubines just wait for the child to be as precious as the mother. If there is a chance to conceive a dragon seed, how can they let it go?" Gong Tianxue said.

"Yes, is it true that mothers are more expensive than children?" Although "substitutes" are substitutes, there is still culture.

"Don't change the subject!" Gong Tianxue immediately annoyed, "The emperor himself is not a beautiful person, and you ruined his name like this, do you think it won't make people suspicious? Fortunately, the emperor called me Come back and have a look, and convey the decree by the way, otherwise it won’t be a good thing to be ruined by you??”

The "stand-in" shivered in fright, and now he regained consciousness, remembering that Gong Tianxue was the beautiful guard who was in charge of the safety of the palace when the envoy from the Donglai Kingdom visited. The emperor really tried to win him over and over again...

The more the "substitute" thought about it, the more frightened he got up from the bed, dismissed the three beauties, leaving Gong Tianxue alone in the bedroom.

Li Chou waited outside under the shadow of the trees. After waiting for a while, he saw three disheveled women come out in a hurry, bowed their heads and left the courtyard.

Li Chou frowned slightly, what the hell is Gong Tianxue doing, just scare the "substitute" a little bit, is it necessary to have a private chat?

After waiting for another half a stick of incense, Gong Tianxue came out triumphantly, and the "stand-in" nodded and bowed to send him to the door, the situation was very ridiculous.

"It's done! We can go back and sleep peacefully." Gong Tianxue strode up to Li Chou, pulled him and said.

"What's going on?" Li Chou asked.

"Hey." Gong Tianxue just smiled but didn't say anything, deliberately showing off.

Li Chou is a very calm person. Seeing that Gong Tianxue didn't say anything, he stopped asking. The two returned to Zhuoshui Bridge all the way. Li Chou was quiet, ready to wash and sleep, Gong Tianxue couldn't hold back anymore and stopped him.

"Why don't you ask me?"

Li Chou smiled helplessly: "Okay, let me ask you, what's going on?"

"My leader is wise and mighty. I can see that guy is a substitute. Since he is a substitute, then his master has to prevent him from becoming real, right? Generally speaking, it is drug control. I guess the emperor may feed him. If you eat something, you will need the emperor's antidote to survive, so you will use this to threaten him and make him listen to me." Gong Tianxue puffed out her chest.

"It's amazing." Li Chou praised.

"The slippery emperor probably never expected that such a day would come. He imagined everything, but he died outside, hahahahaha, but no one recognized the substitute in the court. It wasn't him, he Whether he dies or not has no effect on the people of Chang'an, it's a shame that he values ​​his own life so much and plans this and that, it's really ridiculous." Gong Tianxue rubbed his stomach and said.

"In this way, we don't have to leave Chang'an City in a hurry?" Li Chou asked with a smile.

"No, we don't have to leave Chang'an City at all, Ah Chou, you know what, after thinking about it, I feel that I am still not suitable to be subordinate to others, and being a courtier is really not suitable for me, so I decided to let the substitute As a puppet emperor, I regularly use my true energy to cleanse him of his poison, he listens to me carefully, and helps me develop the power of the Chentian Sect in Central Continent, and we each get what we need, isn't that great?"

Li Chou remained silent.

Gong Tianxue thought she said something wrong, so she hurriedly asked, "Ah Chou, why didn't you speak?"

Li Chou shook his head and said with a smile, "I'm just... amazed that you can think of this. In the past, you only used your emotions to solve problems with violence. Now you have learned to outsmart. It is really not easy."

"That's what you taught me, Ah Chou." Gong Tianxue snuggled into Li Chou's arms with a smile.